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Cuneiform is the term for the early writing in what part of the world?

We now know that chimpanzees (including bonobos) are the closest living relatives to humans. This means that

In Frans de Waal’s TED talk “Moral behavior among animals”, he explains that among our closest relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, pretty much all conflict and stress is handled with violence and even warfare.

Franz Boas tried to make anthropology a science, so he developed the idea of cultural relativism to help anthropologists be more objective. At the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries (before his ideas became mainstream), Western scholars commonly believed that most non-Europeans were

Homo erectus is generally associated with which of the following tool-making technologies?

Most anthropologists consider themselves “scientific” in part because their claims have to be based on some sort of evidence to be taken seriously.

What is used to measure how old a specimen or deposit is in years?

Humans, like chimpanzees and all hominins, are primates.

Many primary states developed out of “hydraulic economies”, meaning that they grew out of

Before starting on his new venture, Mike writes down the specifics of his ideas, the amount of money needed, and future business operations. Mike is involved in preparing a ________.